SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Thu Apr 12 18:39:42 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:38:40AM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> (Think about it a moment.  gdb -p is the same as firefox trying to
> ptrace gnome-keyring)

I thought a bit about it. And now I am even more confused :)

It seems you are already not allowed to ptrace gnome-keyring-daemon
(or ssh-agent because that is setuid). So is there a better example
than gnome-keyring or ssh-agent to show why we would like to clobber
ptrace globally?

Thanks,

Mark


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